My Artiness

Lost in you series...

Some of my new experimentation with light shade and beautiful colours...

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Human Heart A Day*57

Day two of my studies brings a rear view sketch of the Human Heart..Never realised how much harder it would be to draw a Heart in different angles like this..Its actually quite challenging when you have such a specific picture in your head..I have been wanting to start on some smaller pieces to give me a break from the massive painting i've been working on..So I think these little guys will be featuring on some small canvases very soon..So stay tuned..

Broken But Growing

So much has happened in the last 2 months, I have left the nest and moved out with my brother..After leaving everything that felt so familiar and safe I have to admit that Im feeling quite lost and confused..I new it was going to be hard but to be honest I really didn't think it through very well..Actually at all..Anyway I wont bore you with my conundrum of a life..


Part of the move had a lot to do with me wanting to step out and change my life..I've spent way too much time in Adelaide hiding in my room so in light of trying to change and grow within, I have also began changing on the outside..Check out my new and improved artistically amazing arm..Thanks Fabz..

Optical Illusions By Salvador Dali
Tattoo By Fabian Danger De Gaillande
And yes its fresh and unfinished

Me half way into our 10 hour session, yay for lunch breaks!!
 

The Anthropomorphic Cabinet By Salvador Dali
Tattoo by Fabian Danger De Gaillande

Feeling overly impressed with my sleeve so far..

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Hello, long time no beat..Sorry for the minor disappearance, I moved interstate 2 months ago and only had our new internet hooked up today..Was actually nice to have bit of a blog break, but its time to get back on the Human Heart train..


This is for my educational artistic side..The part of me that yearns to be able to have intellectual and informative conversations about my art..Because even though my art is emotionally based and sometimes quite surreal, I do try to make everything as anatomically correct as possible..

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Another play with my melting Heart, just a little leg sketch...

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New sketches for my up coming art piece based on the poem Heart Day*50 that I wrote..No where near the eventual masterpiece but its getting there..Pretty cheering the wood pecker worked out... 

Just a little sketch

Coloured in..Yes I used coloured pencils and regretted it again..

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My Awesome room, with its brown walls and pretty Hearts...Going to miss it all so much...But have to keep moving forward...

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Attention!!! Anyone who does not wish to see a dead bird and its innards please look away for this one..P.S. I did not kill anything by the way..


So last week my bestie and I were having our usual after chiro walk when I found this AMAZING rainbow lorikeet laying dead on the ground, covered in ants..Seriously my best find so far...
Anyone who knows me is aware of my obsession with dead things, but since I refuse to kill anything I have to rely on road kill..


Anyway, I have been researching taxidermy via the net for a while now but wasn't sure if I'd ever have the guts to cut anything open..So im very proud to say I finally faced my fears and sliced open and gutted my very first animal..Was so scary at first but turned out being quite fun and a weirdly awesome bonding experience for my mother and I..She guided me through what I had to do, as a child she used to watch her mum prepare the chickens..


After gutting and cleaning out the little birdie I filled it with salt and put it in a salt bath..This is technically mummification not taxidermy, so should take about 35 days in salt to preserve it properly...Dying to see if its worked and of course, the Heart lover kept its Heart.. <3

Birdie Heart, now living in a jar of meths on my bed side table..

Birdie Heart, lungs and intestines..

Birdie gutted with its intestines, lungs
and Heart in the background

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Decided to start some sketches to go with with the poem I wrote yesterday...Not exactly how I see it finished in my head, but its a good start I think..I started drawing the intestines and the rest but wasn't happy with how it looked, not sure if ill include them in the finished piece...

Human Heart A Day*50

The big 50!! So far and yet not even half way there...Things have been quite hectic in my life lately so I had to take a break from my Hearts...But im back, theres no way im giving up now...Wrote a poem last night, first creative thing I've done in weeks, its going to be the basis for one of my new paintings..Started the sketches today..

Only thing that makes sense...

As the wood pecker beats on my ever melting heart I feel the loss                      running through my veins, icy tentacles branching out...

The void filling with the tears of the ocean, clotting in my throat,    seeping out of my mind...

Ripping out my hair, cascading down like poison ivy, maggots feeding on rotting flesh, tunnels weaving round...

As the puzzle pieces fall my vision blurs, cracked like 7 years but dragging through a lifetime...

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During some much needed girl time last night I came up with this awesome Brain Human Heart...After listening to my girlfriend talk about her constant man problems and then me thinking of my own it all became clear to me...Women really are different to men, we don't trust our brain when love is concerned, we think with our hearts...Seems to be a constant battle for us, do we listen to our brain or our heart...


Materials used....I thought I should try something a little different with this one and try something new, so I painted it with watercolours...A medium im really not confident with but it was fun to experiment..

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A few weeks ago I found this adorable little pond section abandoned in our garden, new straight away I had to use it somehow...So here is my Human Heart for today, with an emphasis on new life, but with the underlying stalker of death...

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Thought it was about time I got back to nature, this is a beautiful tree right outside my bedroom window that on closer inspection actually made a Human Heart on its own...So all I can really take credit for is the photo...I love how the trunk branches out to form the veins with the leaves making the Heart body...It really is amazing what you can find if you just venture out and open your eyes...

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Wow almost 50 down, such a great feeling to have gotten so far...So today I got my inspiration by looking down, literally at my feet..Im a massive lover of toe socks and im not ashamed to say it...I realise they happen to freak a lot of people out, so if your that way inclined, look away!! But everyone else, check out my beautiful hand sew toe sock Human Heart...


Materials used...Toe socks, aqua and peach material and as always, green thread...


Totally dying to sew a lung with the bronchial on the other one...

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Happy Valentines Day everyone....Was lucky enough to have amazing girl time today, my bestie and me went down to Glenelg for the evening..She took me to the most amazing little chocolaterie on the main street..We bought each other strawberries with dipping chocolate and ate them down by the beach, was so loverly...Who needs a man when you have such beautiful friends and such awesome chocolate...


Materials used...Sketch pad, faber castel watercolour pencils...

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This ones for my beautiful Facebook wife, Joelle...She's been bugging me to make a rice Human Heart for weeks now, so here you go darling, this ones all yours... <3


For anyone who's interested, I actually made up sushi rice for this one, so gluey rice with a tea spoon of sugar and a dash of vinegar..Then added the food colouring before letting it cool...Once it was cool I wet my hands with cold water so I could manipulate the rice without it sticking to my fingers...Had to wash my hands in between touching the rice every time, which got quite tricky with the veins...But all in all probably only took about an hour to complete..By the way, Im not sure I would recommend eating this, but it looks awesome..


Materials used...White rice, blue and red food colouring, sugar and Japanese vinegar...

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I wanted to take some inspiration from my all time favourite artist today, Salvador Dail..Only recently I had a few people compare the style of my new pieces to his and yet I hadn't even considered them to be of the Surrealist movement..It surprised me, I had not realised how something that you see regularly in life could have such an impact in your decisions...Really made me think about the imagery that I let into my life..They say that an average person receives up to 3000 advertising images a day, so is that what were becoming, just a product of society..If this is true, we definitely need to watch less tv and read more books..


So in honour of Dalis amazing melting clocks. I bring you my melting Heart....


Materials used...Sketch pad, black sharpie, blue and pink pens..

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Never been a cereal girl (ahhh Sesame street) but really loving this new Be Natural, Pink lady and Flame raisin mix...Soooo good its become my new midnight snack...Thought it deserved an appearance..

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Disclaimer..I have never written out any of my recipes before so I hope it makes sense..Just been experimenting with flavours and this is what I came up with..Damm Im going to make some now..Mmmm

Healthy Heart Warm Salad-Vegetarian

Ingredients

1 Can Four bean mix

1 Bag Rocket and spinach mix

1 Cup Pumpkin

1 Punnet Cherry tomatoes

½ Sliced Red onion

1 Diced Zucchini

6 Slices Halumi 1cm approx

Olive oil

Balsamic vinagar

Salt and pepper

Grill zucchini and pumpkin with dash of olive oil and salt and pepper...Takes approx 30mins depending on griller and size...We want them brown and caramelised but still firm..

When the grilling has about 5-10 mins to go, put dash of olive oil in pan and fry up the halumi, tomatoes and red onion..I like the halumi golden brown but the tomatoes and onion still firm..

Drain bean mix and rinse well, check the spinach mix for dodgy bits..

Put everything in a large salad bowl, add a nice thick drizzle of balsamic vinegar and mix salad well..I don't add any extra salt and pepper or olive oil at this point but you can if you want..

Now eat and enjoy.. :)

If you want to add meat I've found diced chicken breast is perfect..

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Had this idea rolling around my head for weeks but wasn't sure how to pull it off..Think I'll try it again as it didn't work out as 3D as I'd hoped, but worked out okay..Just drew my Heart on the toilet roll then carefully sliced around the sides and the middle bids with a stanley knife and proud to say I still have all of my fingers..Will see if the olds notice it when they come home..


Materials used...Toilet roll, sharpie and stanley knife..

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All my favorite jewelry, including my anatomically correct hand made silver Heart, with black diamonds in the veins, made by the loverly Peggy Skemp....Still craving her lung locket by the way...Hint hint people....Anyway, yes Human Heart...Yet again another cool effect from the pink, hope you like..

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Mmmmmm some of the naughty things I Heart...Except for the Beam, not sure how that got in there...I know these pinky ones are relatively simple but I've actually been doing some experimenting with my photo editor..I managed to make 3 Hearts on the same pink paper look completely different..Pretty cool really..Makes you wonder if anythings real in the new computer age we live in...


Materials used...Sugar scull, mini piss bottles...

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Just a bit of fun today...


Materials used...Some of my favorite little toys from when I was a kid..


I Heart them..  <3

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Today we were naughty..We had chips and gravy for dinner because none of us could be bothered cooking and my gosh was it good...One of the ideas in the creativity journal was to make something that would disappear quickly..Like in the foam of your coffee, so I made a Human Heart in the gravy..Its a bit hard to see in the photo but I hope you can get the gist..

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Today I had a little help..My loverly brother Ben gave me the idea of a heart cookie and my beautiful gf Jo baked and drank wine with me..Was really nice actually...Will definitely have to bake cookies again..So I made a gingerbread cookie Human Heart..Not the most detailed of hearts but pretty good considering how soft and runny the mixture was..


Ps.Yummiest Human Heart ever!!


Materials used.. http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/9761/gingerbread+men

Fresh out of the oven
Love how the cracks made almost perfect veins

Fresh gingerbread dough heart

My pretty finished heart

Mmmmmm think I'll eat you now...

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Another lonely Laura poem....This is one of my latest attempts of finding the positive in my negative...Something I have to really work on...

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So this ones actually a statement on abusive relationships...Something I know a huge percentage of woman have been exposed to..I guess I made this from the point of you of the woman who stay, myself unfortunately included in that...But never again, I hope...


Think I want to rename this one...

The dangerous cycle of love....

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Yay I've finished my first month of hearts!! Dont know how but Im quite relieved, didn't think I would make it this far to be honest...But here I am with hopefully minimal grammatical errors..So have a few more poems to post, then I promise I will get back on the physical hearts..


This ones all mushy, sorry about that..Thats what happens when Laura gets lonely...

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My pretty birdy all finished

So about a week ago you may have seen my Human Heart A Day post for the bird heart...Just thought I'd show you my finished bird skeleton...Love him so much, just need a glass case for him now...If anyone knows where to get one please let me know..Thanks

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This ones very close to me at the moment, its about the walls we build around ourselves..There ment to be there to protect us from getting hurt but I think in the end they do more damage than good...I may be safe in my comfort zone, but I'm not learning anything new, not seeing new things..Im not really living life...Something Im drastically trying to change....

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This is one of my slightly more depressing pieces but I used symbolism instead of making it gory...Its about suicide...Dont worry people that know me, im just venting, not contemplating..

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Today I created my heart a day poetry journal...I've been writing poetry for years now but had never shown anyone or even taken it seriously..But its strange..Im only a month into doing my hearts and I've noticed its helped my creativity in so many different new ways...I've started cooking more and creating new interesting dishes, I've been writing poems everyday and just my whole out look on life has changed...So I decided to start putting everything down on paper...I was given this amazing hand made leather diary by my loverly sister in law and brother a few years ago but was always to scared to use it...Its way too pretty just to have sitting on my bookshelf so Im turning it into my heart journal, aka the poetry from my heart...


So this week I haven't made any hearts, instead i've been writing from the heart...

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My cold wire Heart and now my calloused, bleeding fingers...So far the most painful of all my hearts, almost gave up there...Worked out great, although would recommend thinner wire for anyone trying this at home..


Materials used...Wire and a lot of bending.. :)

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My Heart of wax...Didn't work out like I planned at all...Think I'll definitely have to try this one again at some point...But at least it still looks like a Human Heart..Well kind of..

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My gosh today was a long one, but not your usual Australia Day...Well not for me anyway..Yesterday mum found me a present, a beautifully almost mummified little bird...So I spent the whole afternoon/evening meticulously scraping dried skin and ligaments to reveal its beautiful bones..Never done this before so Im still not sure if its going to work or if in three months it'll waste away and fall apart..But was a good learning experience...So todays heart isn't actually one I made, Its one I found...Inside of the bird its heart was perfectly perserved inside its rib cage...Well at least I think its a heart.. 

Mummified Bird Heart

Me at our kitchen table cleaning the bird skeleton... Just realised even this photo has a heart, just not a human or animal one...My pretty heart/peace sign tattoo in honour of my poppa...